Who was the most unexpected star in Hollywood in the last 10 years?

A friend bought Chris Pratt a plane ticket to Hawaii where he worked as a waiter in a Bubba Gumps Restaurant in Honolulu.

One day in 2003, he served a woman who turned out to be an agent/talent scout looking for new faces.

She cast him in a movie she had just co-written, “The Extreme Team”/2003. That got him to Hollywood. He was paid $700.

———-“So I guess my friend bought me a winning lottery ticket”———

In 2014, he broke out as a leading man after headlining two of the years biggest films.

Voicing Emmett in “The Lego Movie” & staring as Peter Quill in “Guardians of The Galaxy”.

With 5 films in the work from 2021–24, —-Chris Pratt——is a hot ticket with a salary to match——$10+ million per.